The Rejection of the Idea That the Americans Are Like the French

There's this rejection of the idea that the Americans are like the French but were there ways in which Americans in Vietnam ended up replicating French behavior or French colonial practices without necessarily being aware of what they were communicating by doing so? "What we see is a remarkable set of similarities as I say I think in my last book to study these wars in succession is the experience of feeling of the Jafu," he says.